Lecturer

Dr Leung Chan

Science
School of Mathematics & Statistics

Dr Leung Chan is a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, UNSW. He is a member of the School’s Finance and Risk Analysis Research Group which develops innovative methods for financial modelling, derivative pricing and risk analysis.

The research interests of the Finance and Risk Analysis group cover a number of different interrelated areas:

Financial Mathematics

  • Pricing and hedging of financial derivatives
  • Stochastic implied volatility models
  • Default risk modelling
  • Modelling of credit migrations
  • Valuation of credit derivatives
  • Asset price dynamics


Quantitative Risk

  • Quantitative Risk Solutions Lab
Phone
9385 7021
Location
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 The Red Centre Room 1036
  • Book Chapters | 2014
    Chan LL, 2014, 'An Exact Formula for Pricing American Exchange Options with Regime Switching', in Mamon RS; Elliott RJ (ed.), Hidden Markov Models in Finance, Springer, pp. 211 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7442-6_9
  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'AN EXACT AND EXPLICIT FORMULA FOR PRICING LOOKBACK OPTIONS WITH REGIME SWITCHING', Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 19, pp. 723 - 729, http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/jimo.2021203
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Saddlepoint Method for Pricing European Options under Markov-Switching Heston’s Stochastic Volatility Model', Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15, pp. 396 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15090396
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'An Analytic Approach for Pricing American Options with Regime Switching', JOURNAL OF RISK AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14050188
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Editorial for special issue “finance, financial risk management and their applications”', International Journal of Financial Studies, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijfs6040083
    Journal articles | 2016
    Chan L; Platen E, 2016, 'Pricing of long dated equity-linked life insurance contracts', Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 34, pp. 339 - 355, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07362994.2015.1136563
    Journal articles | 2016
    Elliott RJ; Chan L; Siu TK, 2016, 'Pricing options in a Markov regime switching model with a random acceleration for the volatility', IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 81, pp. 842 - 859, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxw035
    Journal articles | 2016
    Zhang M; Chan L, 2016, 'Pricing volatility swaps in the Heston’s stochastic volatility model with regime switching: A saddlepoint approximation method', International Journal of Financial Engineering, 03, pp. 1 - 20
    Journal articles | 2016
    Zhang M; Chan L, 2016, 'Pricing volatility swaps in the Heston's stochastic volatility model with regime switching: A saddlepoint approximation method', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S2424786316500304
    Journal articles | 2016
    Zhang M; Chan L, 2016, 'Saddlepoint approximations to option price in a regime-switching model', Annals of Finance, 12, pp. 55 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10436-015-0272-2
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Pricing volatility swaps in the Heston’s stochastic volatility model with regime switching: A saddlepoint approximation method', International Journal of Financial Engineering, 03, pp. 1 - 20
    Journal articles | 2015
    Chan L; Platen E, 2015, 'Pricing and hedging of long dated variance swaps under a 3/2 volatility model', Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 278, pp. 181 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2014.09.032
    Journal articles | 2015
    Chan L; Platen E, 2015, 'Pricing volatility derivatives under the modified constant elasticity of variance model', Operations Research Letters, 43, pp. 419 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2015.05.009
    Journal articles | 2015
    Chan L; Zhu SP, 2015, 'An explicit analytic formula for pricing barrier options with regime switching', Mathematics and Financial Economics, 9, pp. 29 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11579-014-0119-z
    Journal articles | 2015
    ELLIOTT RO B E R T J; CHAN LE U N G L U; SIU TA K K U E N, 2015, 'A DUPIRE EQUATION FOR A REGIME-SWITCHING MODEL', International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 18
    Journal articles | 2015
    Elliott RJ; Chan L; Siu TK, 2015, 'A Dupire equation for a regime-switching model', International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219024915500235
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'A DUPIRE EQUATION FOR A REGIME-SWITCHING MODEL', International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 18, pp. 1 - 13
    Journal articles | 2014
    Chan L, 2014, 'An exact formula for pricing american exchange options with regime switching', International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, 209, pp. 211 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7442-69
    Journal articles | 2014
    Elliott RJ; Siu TK; Chan LL, 2014, 'On pricing barrier options with regime switching', Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 256, pp. 196 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2013.07.034
    Journal articles | 2013
    Chan L; Zhu SP, 2013, 'An analytic formula for pricing American-style convertible bonds in a regime switching model', IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 26, pp. 403 - 428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpu005
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Option valuation under a regime-switching constant elasticity of variance process', Applied Mathematics and Computation, 219, pp. 4434 - 4443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2012.10.047
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Quasi-Monte Carlo methods for derivatives on realised variance of an index under the benchmark approach', The ANZIAM Journal, 52, pp. C727 - C741
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, 'A PDE approach for risk measures for derivatives with regime switching', Annals of Finance, 4, pp. 55 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10436-006-0068-5
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Pricing Options Under a Generalized Markov-Modulated Jump-Diffusion Model', Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 25, pp. 821 - 843, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07362990701420118
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, 'Pricing Volatility Swaps Under Heston's Stochastic Volatility Model with Regime Switching', Applied Mathematical Finance, 14, pp. 41 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504860600659222
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'Option pricing for GARCH models with Markov switching', International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 9, pp. 825 - 841, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219024906003846
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'Risk measures for derivatives with Markov-modulated pure jump processes', Asia Pacific Financial Markets, 13, pp. 129 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10690-007-9038-9
    Journal articles | 2005
    Elliott RJ; Chan LL; Siu TK, 2005, 'Option pricing and Esscher transform under regime switching', Annals of Finance, 1, pp. 423 - 432
    Journal articles | 2004
    Elliott RJ; Chan LL, 2004, 'Perpetual American options with fractional Brownian motion', QUANTITATIVE FINANCE, 4, pp. 123 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1469-7688/4/2/001
    Journal articles | 2004
    2004, 'Perpetual American options with fractional Brownian motion', Quantitative Finance, 4, pp. 123 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14697680400000016
  • Preprints | 2014
    2014, An exact and explicit formula for pricing Asian options with regime switching, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.5091
    Preprints | 2014
    2014, An exact and explicit formula for pricing lookback options with regime switching, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.4864
    Preprints | 2010
    2010, Exact Pricing and Hedging Formulas of Long Dated Variance Swaps under a $3/2$ Volatility Model, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1007.2968